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The monumental global task to restore degraded ecosystems will need to include sophisticated technologies such as environmental DNA monitoring to understand and support the recovery of complex biospheres. Genomics provides some important 'weapons' in the fight to repair ecosystems - from authenticating seed sources to improving the detection of invasive weeds or animals.
Jun 27th, 2022
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Researchers show that using four frequencies of applied voltage can improve the measurement of cell size and shape during impedance cytometry, enabling to enhance the speed and accuracy of biological experiments.
Jun 24th, 2022
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Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars.
Jun 23rd, 2022
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Not only could this new tool help with the difficult job of altering proteins in practically useful ways, but it also works by methods that are fully interpretable - an advantage over the conventional artificial intelligence that has aided with protein engineering in the past.
Jun 23rd, 2022
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The new imaging approach brings current imaging colors from four to more than 15 for mapping overlapping proteins.
Jun 22nd, 2022
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Scientists now able to take the next step towards synthetic cells: They introduced functional DNA-based cytoskeletons into cell-sized compartments and showed functionality.
Jun 21st, 2022
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Researchers have developed a unique 3D printed system for harvesting stem cells from bioreactors, offering the potential for high quality, wide-scale production of stem cells at a lower cost.
Jun 16th, 2022
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Researchers have invented a material that uses electrical signals to capture and release biomolecules. The new and efficient method may have a major impact in the development of biomedicines and pave the way for the development of electronic pills and drug implants.
Jun 15th, 2022
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Scientists used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell and creating a free resource for other researchers.
Jun 9th, 2022
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Synthetic biology promises far reaching solutions to human concerns, from averting climate catastrophes to medical breakthroughs. But are ethics keeping pace with emerging technology? The case study of engineered Artemisinin, used to combat malaria, suggests a more nuanced approach is needed to address the ethical challenges such advances bring.
Jun 6th, 2022
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By combining the technologies of DNA droplets and DNA computing, scientists have developed computational DNA droplets, which can recognize specific patterns in tumor biomarker microRNA sequences.
Jun 3rd, 2022
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A new method for single cells can rapidly determine the make-up of bacterial communities in the gut and environment.
Jun 3rd, 2022
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Viruses can make animals and humans sick - or healthy: Researchers have succeeded in genetically modifying the herpes simplex virus type 1, which triggers painful cold sores, in such a way that it can be used in the fight against cancer in the future.
Jun 1st, 2022
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Researchers have exploited the flow of electrolytes in an electrochemical reactor to generate the streaming potential for reactions without a power supply. They successfully polymerized two aromatic monomers, proving the feasibility of this setup.
May 31st, 2022
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Researchers have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the natural product cyanobacterin, which in Nature is produced in small quantities by the cyanobacteria Scytonema hofmanni. In the process, they also discovered a new class of enzymes for building carbon-carbon bonds.
May 27th, 2022
Read moreA new antibiotic, derived from computer models of bacterial gene products, appears to neutralize even drug-resistant bacteria.
May 26th, 2022
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New research has big implications for genomic medicine. Scientists have defined with atomic precision a new genome editing tool that is less than half the size of CRISPR-Cas9 - currently the most reliable genome editing system. This new tool would allow scientists to fit genetic editors into smaller viral delivery systems to fix a variety of diseases.
May 26th, 2022
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Researchers have successfully developed a biomarker that will enable Parkinson's disease to be rapidly and inexpensively diagnosed from blood serum samples.
May 26th, 2022
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